Daily life with Mandi; mums and babies plus ridiculously cute sugar gliders

[@margretholmann2070]

Sie sind einfach alle entzückend 🥰🥰🥰!!!

[@marionbowler5440]

Oh my, those little wings, the cutest. ❤🍁🦇🇨🇦

[@MC-qb1jg]

These bats are so precious. The newborn looked very alert. Tutu is adorable.

[@KACn5582]

My heart can't take all this cuteness!!

[@nataliakhomenko5325]

Thank you, wonderful person, for caring about living beings

[@PaulG.x]

The other bats seem to become protective and alert when one is giving birth

[@chezmoi42]

Thanks, Meg and Mandi, for this perfect bedtime story. What a nice crop of baby batkins! I nearly fell asleep with Tutu while Mandi petted her head. Time to close down and go up to bed.

[@ahmedfalahy9337]

Beautiful mamas and adorable babies

[@susanhopkison3363]

Just absolutely gorgeous all of them beautiful faces & those eyes ❤❤🇬🇧

[@A.L.Gardner]

Oh Tutu! Quite possibly the most adorable little creature ever!

[@PK-oy4fe]

Omg...little Tutu is so adorable! Thank you for sharing all the amazing critters with all of us! There is nothing like seeing newborn and baby batties with their mums...and then getting a close up nose kiss from a sugar glider! Thanks Meg and Mandi!😇❤️🖤🦇🖤❤️

[@susanhopkison3363]

Australia are so blessed you have so many beautiful creatures. I've never heard of Gliders. Just gorgeous. ❤🇬🇧

[@GlitzyWitch]

Aaaaw little Tutu and friends are adorable ❤❤❤

[@tracyjacoby2382]

I had to re-watch and absolutely love the Returnees: "there's no place like Mandi's!"🖤🩶♥️🦇🥰

[@marisaera2353]

Beautiful, each and every one. Thank you both. X

[@sonialignani]

I like every time to see how alert the new mums are, they look around to protect their babies. Baby blacks are so gorgeous!! ❤Funny gliders, big and sweet eyes

[@lindayoung58]

Lovely mama bats, lovely baby bats, lovely sugar gliders. Lovely video- Thank You with love😍

[@keldaogg2157]

They are all just outrageously cute and adorable.

[@dyanalayng5507]

Oh how beautiful all the mums and babies are. Dear little crumpled brand new wings on that newborn. Long life and health to you all!

[@dany.adelfinger]

The third grey baby said: Mum, open the milk bar, please. And all of them plus the gliders are ridiculously cute indeed.

[@lesslie1061]

My dear friend Meg, even though the mothers are adult age,with their sweet faces they appear pupish themselves - there,I made up a new word for the description of our beautiful batties!😂

[@Megabattie]

The mumbats tend to be quite calm in care as a group; the adrenaline has worn off; the other girls have accepted that they're being fed and cared for sensitively, so they're really calm like brood cows. But if they catch a whiff of escape, they're off or aggro or purposeful.

[@GlitzyWitch]

At least all these mum bats will be safe from the outside world if danger for now, and being able to raise their pups. Thank you for giving them this precious opportunities. You are wonderful ❤❤❤

[@RhemaMooneeram]

Meg, ct scan results were not out today. They will be chased up like hell in time for chemo 4 on tues. I need to know the progress.

[@dsmith4136]

Cuteness Overload!!😍🥰❤

[@Sarah.Riedel]

For some reason watching their ears move is mesmerizing, how they respond instantaneously to a particular noise and move independently from one another!

[@Megabattie]

It's like a dance, or like sign language. I love the little ridges on their ears

[@Elly-fm3nx]

Sweet little friends 🌿💗

[@ccrgrl]

Tutu is the sweetest thing!!!

[@smm3849]

I know it is the way the bats eat, but it makes my neck hurt. They are adorable. Thank you for video.

[@carmelurbanoviezurbanoviez7437]

Thank you for all you do for these precious creatures ❤

[@missnaomi613]

It always amazes me how newborns of various species are just... so... functional, right from the start!

[@Megabattie]

They know what they need to know from birth; their feet are huge with extra little barbs under their claws for the first month to help them hang on; they know to sniff out the milk and that there's milk on the other side; they know they have to hang on with their tiny needle sharp backwards curving teeth... and quite quickly they come up to speed with other things. I rescued a 2 week old baby on his mum once and he bigwingsed me and swore at me to BACK OFF! Such feist from something so small and young.

[@pixelgoat7317]

Lil' velcro poofs! The moms must have a VERY high pain tolerance with how hard those babies must cling for dear life!

[@Megabattie]

They bite onto her nipple with their tiny backwards curving milk teeth, however I'm reliably informed that mumbats don't have any nerve endings in their nipples which I feel is an evolutionary blessing.

[@pixelgoat7317]

@Megabattie I could imagine!

[@sharim]

OMG that superabundance of sugar gliders is too much to take….adorableness overload….can’t deal with it….

[@Megabattie]

LOL a sugarabundance of sugar gliders

[@tchambard]

It’s surprising how big the babies are compared to the mommas. 💜

[@swithinbarclay4797]

That one newborn Blackie pup, was scrunching its wings up like fists, almost like you see newborn humans doing. And another pup, wrapping so strongly around Mummy's tummie, like a Boa Constrictor. Best of all, that one Mum giving us a knowing wink!

[@nargilblue]

How is the one footed mom bat getting along?

[@liviobabich952]

Che dolci musetti 🦇🦇🦇🦇🥰❤

[@brb__bathroom]

too cute, aaaah

[@Catherine-hf6zc]

How do the mombats manage to dip into the food buckets with a baby around the waist or diagonal from shoulder to hip? The gliders are adorable, that fur just seems tp beg for pets.

[@danielleleyshon-m9o]

Cuteness overload ❤

[@tracyjacoby2382]

Thanks so much Meg for sharing Mandi's wonderful video!💕 The Mumbat maternity ward is hopping with wide-eyed Mums and their precious bubba's.🦇🤗🦇💕💕 The Sugar Gliders are beautiful and in this video very quiet, I remember past videos where the sound was loud as the Roosters only closer.🐓🔊🥰

[@Megabattie]

Mandi sends me great stuff.

[@tracyjacoby2382]

​@@Megabattie Every single second of her videos are heartwarming, hilarious, educational, it can be heartbreaking of course but it's nice to see Mandi's haven. Thanks Meg.🥰

[@werewolf4931]

sweet babies and mommies. thanks for sharing. ❤🦇

[@AudreyLMcFarland]

OH MY!! I love seeing baby and mommy!! This is so wonderful to watch!!

[@katarzynakrzysztofik6718]

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[@yomama8873]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇

[@JanetAyars]

Oh my goodness...cuteness overload ❤💕💗

[@oksanamediana6974]

❤❤❤👍👍👍💋💋💋

[@jamielacourse7578]

Love those ears.......

[@joerudnik9290]

I think you need shallow buckets, more of them, for feeding stations.

[@mariagonzalez5119]

They melt my heart ❤️

[@Lisa-eu9fy]

💜💞💕💗💓💖💘💝🦇🦇🦇🦇

[@JadeStrawberry]

Mandi has quite the maternity wing at the Batroia. The Sugar Gliders try to pretend they're not adorable. Nice try Gliders, nice try.

[@naomij66]

It really makes me mad when i see how readily available sugar gliders are for sale in America then dumped when they realise how hard they are to keep as pets….

[@Megabattie]

Yep, exotic pets are all the rage until you actually have to care for one responsibly. I don't know why people think it's a good idea; most people can barely manage to care for a dog or cat, and they're domesticated and active during the day. Sugar gliders are incredibly nocturnal.

[@scallopohare9431]

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[@sharim]

Newborn Baby to Mumbat: We’re upside down! Can we please get rightside up? Mumbat: Just hang from your huge feet. Baby battie: I’m hungry!!! Where’s my bottle and how can I hold it? I have no hands! Mumbat: The milk bar is in my armpit…er, my wingpit. Use those pointy things to grab and clamber on over. Baby battie: How can I hold on? Remember, no hands! Mumbat: Just bite my nipple and hold on with those pointy-backwards tiny teeth. Baby battie: Ummmm…slurp…ummmm….suckle…hmmmm

[@mercedesgarcia5808]

Que bonitos

[@marthacalkins8054]

Was the black at 1:25 actually rocking her baby?

[@Megabattie]

Not deliberately I think; it's momentum from moving around; she could have stopped swinging if she'd put her thumb up but she chose not to.

[@elkenieen3856]

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[@peteburns-s3c]

Meg, what are Gliders - are they Flying Squirrels?

[@scallopohare9431]

Flying squirrels have extra skin from their front legs to back so they can coast. We have them in the US. I know less about sugar gliders.

[@cathypatrick-cx2ji]

Sugar gliders are marsupials whereas Flying Squirrels are placental rodents.They’re a wonderful example of convergent evolution.

[@Megabattie]

No, we don't have squirrels in Australia; they're kind of in the possum family; marsupials with membrane between their wrists and ankles so they can glide. Google Sugar Gliders and Squirrel Gliders. (squirrel gliders have no relationship to squirrels btw)

[@childofcascadia]

Do they naturally seperate into maternity colonies like the myotis do here?

[@Megabattie]

Not exactly but kind of; the pregnant and new mum girls will hang out together in captivity, and some trees will have more mums with babies in the colony; it's how they feel most comfortable.

[@damattice23]

Are gliders native to Australia also? Must be. I agree they are not and should not be pets. Rehab is different. You want to handle exotic animals, become a rehaber or a vet.

[@Megabattie]

Gliders are Australian native animals; they don't actually make great pets in that they're very nocturnal, and to keep them tame you have to either totally alter their UV diurnal cycle so they're awake in daylight hours, or change your own diurnal cycle so you're awake during the night. Tricky times.

[@Kevin8-b2b]

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